Biography:

Tarek El-Arabi is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. He graduated from the same department back in 1999 and appointed as teaching assistant. In 2003 he obtained his master?s degree in agricultural virology and traveled to Canada in 2006 for his PhD, which he obtained from University of Guelph in 2011 in Food Safety. He spent one year as a marginal postdoc research scientist at University of Guelph, Canada and Wageningen University, Netherlands. Dr. El-Arabi also worked part-time as food safety consultant to some Egyptian and International food companies, business development director to Pharmacia pharmaceuticals as well as Biotechnology research director at Heliopolis University. He taught and teaching numerous graduate and undergraduate courses at University of Guelph in Canada and Ain Shams University, Heliopolis University and AUC, in Egypt. Dr. El-Arabi is a peer-reviewer to many of reputable international journals including ASM, BMC, PNAS, PLOS. He received many certificates in human development and personal profiling training. Now that he joined the core committee of the Institute of Teaching of Responsible Science in partnership with US National Academy of Science and Bibliotheca Alexandrina he co-organized several workshops on teaching of responsible science. Currently, involved in the catalyst office to support innovative research and patency at Ain Shams University. His research is directed in the area of enhancement of organic agriculture as well as food safety. He has more than 20 different publications in those areas. He?s also the lead investigator of an EU project ?BioGuard? and on the advisory committee of 3 master?s and 1 PhD student.

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